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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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I'm 68 and a half years old I grew up with newspapers I love newspapers I love the news business. I started CNN I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.
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